Contemptor number two

Well here we go, the immediate inspiration from going along to warhammer world has shown itself in getting me to get off my arse and complete the second contemptor. Well I say complete but there is still a bit more work to do but i think it is definitely a serious step forward and going easily see play on the battlefield now.

I have also pretty much completed the flight stand for the fire raptor so all told a productive day yeasterday and now we just have to see how long I can keep this motivation up for and how much of the Night Lords gets completed off the back of it.

As it stands I now essentially have the following completed....
4 jetbikes without riders
5 cataphractii terminators
2 drop pods
2 contemptor mortis dreadnoughts
1 rhino

And I currently own and plan to get complete as soon as possible...
1 deathstorm drop pod (about half painted)
1 cataphractii armoured librarian (half painted)
1 fire raptor
20 assault marines
3 outrider bikers

Once all of that is done I will in theory only need 10 tactical marines to complete the 2000 point list but I will almost certainly be getting two units of terror squad marines to go in those drop pods so I can ensure I can get good use of them and I may well have to get a unit of destroyers with jump packs accompanied by a moritat as I think that could be a very potent addition to the list and would see good use in apocalypse games.

Once I have that long purchased and painted then I will probably be taking a break from the night lords as I am getting increasingly drawn towards a mechanicum force since they are so different to the other armies out there and they have a lot of really nice models, that army will be covered on here and can always be used as allies for the night lords or visa versa depending on what I want at the time - options are always good. I will cover of the development of the mechanicum on here along with any further expansion of the Night Lords since I am not sure they will ever really be a completed project, legion armies had the potential to be immense so I will never really feel that continued expansion is inappropriate.

Battle brothers

This past weekend I accompanied a couple of my friends to battle brothers in warhammer world. I wanted to see what the event was like and I was also looking to being able to check out the miniature gallery.

I have to say that the weekend was very interesting and inspiring but two days there with my friends constantly busy with games and nothing specific to do of my own was a touch of a drag but it has certainly got the creative juices flowing and following my return I have already started putting masking tape on the fire raptor in preparation for painting.

The armies present at the event were brilliant for the main part with some exceptionally well painted forces and a lot of large models, I spotted a couple of warhound titans, at least one elder titan, more than a dozen knights and some of the forge world greater daemons. What impressed me most was the friendly nature of everyone I met, while I was generally just lurking around my friends table I quite often had their opponents shaking my hand, making small talk while my friends planned their moves and generally bringing me in to the social experience which was brilliant. That said I do not think I will be participating in any tournaments any time soon, I found that the games I watched always felt a little rushed as trying to get a full game in within the two and a half hours permitted often was a bit of a stretch and with so many people in the same room there was so much background noise is was quite grating after a while although it was probably not helped by the fact that it was an extremely hot weekend.

The miniature gallery was amazing, the models were top notch and there was a diorama of a Tyranid assault on a space wolf outpost which was exceptional, every time I looked at it I noticed something different. The forge world greater chaos dragon was also an absolutely stunning model which had been given an exceptional paint job – the only down side is while you emerge from the room with mind aglow with all of the possibilities there is also some humility since I know that no matter how I try I am not going to be able to come close to that level of painting. I will continue to plug away on my guys but somehow I doubt I would ever be comfortable with them being in the same room as the models on display in that gallery.

One other thing that my group did take from the day is that we are definitely going to want to try and motivate our gaming group in to going to warhammer world to conduct an apocalypse battle on one of their feature tables, this will probably not happen until next year since warhammer world is about to undergo some redevelopment but as a plus that gives me some time to get more of my army complete and actually give me something decent to utilise in the battle.

Overall I have to consider it a weekend well spent and a shout out to my friends who had their army nominated for best painted, they might not have won but I think they did a really good job and it did look really nice on the battlefield. 

Next time I will return with photos.